SpaceX has applied for approval to operate a 100,000-member megaconstellation of next-gen Starlink satellites in Earth orbit.

A new study published in The Innovation highlights the launch of Haishao-1 (HS-1), China's first low-inclination orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite. This marks a breakthrough in global ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...

China establishes VLEO industry alliance as satellites demonstrate sustained low-orbit operations China has established a ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

A fragmentation event involving a Chinese launch vehicle upper stage has created a rapidly expanding debris field in one of the most heavily used regions of space, placing operational satellites and ...

At this very moment, there are over 10,000 operational satellites in low Earth orbit, along with 3,500 decommissioned (or defunct) satellites, tens of thousands of pieces of debris 10 centimeters or ...